Friday, July 13, 2007

Links & Reviews

- Bookride examines Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Book Dragon reviews David Quammen's The Boilerplate Rhino, an essay collection of his that I've somehow missed. I'll have to find it, sounds pretty good.

- For the London Review of Books, Matthew Reynolds reviews a the five-volume Poems of John Dryden collection being published by Longman. Reynolds writes "Of all the great English poets, Dryden must be the least enjoyed."

- BibliOdyssey offers up some lovely Aztec manuscript illustrations from the Tovar Manuscript.

- Over at Paper Cuts, Dwight Garner comments on the OED's continued calls for citizens' assistance, partly through the BBC program "Balderdash and Piffle."

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Reviews of books old and new; news and commentary on book history, library culture, digital humanities, archives and related subjects. Written by Jeremy Dibbell, a bibliophile, haunter of used bookstores, and Director of Communications and Outreach for Rare Book School. Email: philobiblos@gmail.com.